He knew he was irrational and in love with a woman with whom he had spent all of fifteen minutes. He was as much in love as he had been with Élodi, but this was different because it was possible, because Amina knew what he knew, because separately they had come to the same place in their lives. He said to himself that he was just crazy, that she could not have possibly fallen in love with him as he had with her. It was a lesson he had learned many times over, in many infatuations. And yet he could not help but continue to believe that she had.
